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Scarce Kobe Imprint

[Japanese Judaica] Sidur Beith-El [Prayers for the Entire Year] yikhalkel ha-tefilot le-khol yemot ha-shanah... / asaf, sider ṿe-tirgem bi-śefat Rusiya Asher b.R. Eliezer Ṿohl. [Includes Hagadah for Passover. With Russian Translation by Asher Wohl] Kobe Sputnik 1920
First edition, 8vo, pp.xvi, 498, 24, Hebrew and Russian title pages, vignette of Wandering Jew on verso of Hebrew title. Contemporary cloth-backed boards, lacking front free end-paper. Some light browning, opening two leaves repaired. Preserved in modern half calf box.
See H. Dicker, Wanderers and Settlers in the Far East, 1962, pp.169-70

An extremely scarce imprint from a press set up in Kobe to serve the small Jewish population. This prayer-book was first published in Vilna.